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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7679753" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>sorting out dry cows last night, one very obvious fact, is becoming evident, dry or young stock, do better on old grass, than new grass. Our dairy, which grazes nothing over 4 yrs old, is rather 'loose' to say the least, and it is showing up, especially in the hfrs, although milk production is ok. So two different out comes, which some would say, should be the other way round. One easy obvious solution, is too feed hay/straw, which, although we don't want to, we will have to, and we have plenty of that ! We have 150big bales arriving now, which will be made from old pasture, or conservation acres, and will be ideal.</p><p> Going back to production, we have tried to leave longer residuals, and have, thinking cattle can utilise that bit of fibre, in the longer stem. That hasn't gone to plan, you have to graze much tighter, to get them to eat it, then you loose the advantages of the longer residual idea, pre-cutting, when we really lost the plan, wasn't really ideal, production dropped. The only constant theme, between both swards, is the fact that prg, has an insane desire to run to head, at every opportunity, that could also be said about chicory, at the moment.</p><p> Don't really know the answer, constant topping, is one, plus that keeps the weeds down, and stops prg heading, or, we keep reducing the amount of prg, in the mixes, concentrating on the latest heading varieties, which means you lose early growth, always say, farming is a balance, just need to find it !</p><p> Been putting a few handfulls of chicory seed, in the fert spreader, as we use it, certainly grows easy, sprouting up all over the place, makes you wonder about carefully prepared seed beds !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7679753, member: 86168"] sorting out dry cows last night, one very obvious fact, is becoming evident, dry or young stock, do better on old grass, than new grass. Our dairy, which grazes nothing over 4 yrs old, is rather 'loose' to say the least, and it is showing up, especially in the hfrs, although milk production is ok. So two different out comes, which some would say, should be the other way round. One easy obvious solution, is too feed hay/straw, which, although we don't want to, we will have to, and we have plenty of that ! We have 150big bales arriving now, which will be made from old pasture, or conservation acres, and will be ideal. Going back to production, we have tried to leave longer residuals, and have, thinking cattle can utilise that bit of fibre, in the longer stem. That hasn't gone to plan, you have to graze much tighter, to get them to eat it, then you loose the advantages of the longer residual idea, pre-cutting, when we really lost the plan, wasn't really ideal, production dropped. The only constant theme, between both swards, is the fact that prg, has an insane desire to run to head, at every opportunity, that could also be said about chicory, at the moment. Don't really know the answer, constant topping, is one, plus that keeps the weeds down, and stops prg heading, or, we keep reducing the amount of prg, in the mixes, concentrating on the latest heading varieties, which means you lose early growth, always say, farming is a balance, just need to find it ! Been putting a few handfulls of chicory seed, in the fert spreader, as we use it, certainly grows easy, sprouting up all over the place, makes you wonder about carefully prepared seed beds ! [/QUOTE]
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